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Hard Sci-Fi

The Honest Machine

Hard science fiction about records, evidence, and the price of telling the truth.

3 books · read in order

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Book One

What the Dead Man Saw

“A man is dead outside Kepler Station, tethered to the hull, eyes open — with alien mathematics burned into both retinas.”

Rael Doss was a maintenance technician. He was thirty-four. And officially, he never existed — because he came from a hidden community of forty-two thousand people living below a station deck, uncounted for four generations. Dr. Y…

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Book Two

The Uncounted

“She proved that forty-two thousand people exist. Which is exactly what makes them illegal.”

Dr. Yara Osei filed the most important record of her career. It was complete. It was true. Every fact in it can be certified across fourteen archives. And it has turned a hidden community — four generations who survived by being i…

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Book Three

The Founding Harm

“To be trusted with humanity's confession, she must first file her own.”

Eleven years ago, Dr. Yara Osei wrote a record in which every single fact was true. A woman named Elin Kade read one half of it, lost everything, and hanged herself. Yara has never filed the death. Now the oldest institution in th…

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Hard science fiction about records, evidence, and the price of telling the truth.

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